Tactile Art Project Blog

Today’s blog will be discussing our research into “Materials and Techniques”. The sections of which will be divided into “Wood”, “Paper”, “Fabric”, “Plaster”, “Thermochromic Paint”, “Stone”, “Metal”, “Ceramic”, “Vacuum Formed Plastic”, “Silicone Rubber” and finally “Resin”.

Today’s blog will be specific to material repeatedly stimulating a particular kind of movement and in turn allowing for a memory to be created and recalled. It will also be discussing how textures can stimulate memories. The discussion will be broken down into sections “Recognitive Movement”, “Cognitive Stimulation”, “Sensory Based Art” and “Recollective Memory” where they will be looked at more in depth.

Today’s blog discusses a number of processes and research in the lead up to the construction and final completion of our “Prototype”. Its contents will come under the headings “Collaborating Ideas”, “Evaluation Criteria”, “Multi-purpose Fusion” and “It is all language”.

Working on artwork for such an important issue, the following is in order to increase dementia awareness to the community at large.

Written chronologically these next few posts will show some of our information on dementia and treatments, journeying through the making process- of research, design and construction, to our finished prototype-stage art piece at 43″ x 45″ (pictured right).

In a few posts’ time we will be able to share with you our second artwork that we are currently working on.

Introduction

A quick introduction for everyone, we are three graduates of CSAD that have been commissioned by The Gwanwyn Arts Festival from Age Cymru and the Cardiff and the Vale University Health Board to work on a pioneering art therapy project to treat mental illness. We are in the process of creating three-dimensional, tactile wall artworks to be installed in Llandough Hospital’s new mental health facilities. The theme of these artworks has been inspired by the four seasons, with the intent of depicting each season with a multi-sensory technique.(more…)